Solo deep dive: Deep Change by R. Quinn
Amit Paul (co-founder of Innerworks) takes us into the weeds of the book Deep change by Robert Quinn. There are excerpts from the book from 1996 with some deep provcations that are probably useful for anyone involved in or preparing to undertake a change process.
This episode deals with maps and territory, sacred cows, a day at the beach, lost soldiers in the Italian alps during the second world war, organisations in homeostasis not sustained operation, what it means to reinvent yourself periodically, what it means to build the bridge while you are walking on it, conditions for empowerment, why excellence is a form of deviance and much more.
4 takeaways from the episode are:
There is no such thing as a sustainable organisation, organisations are constantly dynamically rebalancing.
Either you are in a process of deep change or you are in slow death.
There is no such thing as changing others, if you are not changing too there will only be talk about change, no action.
Are you willing to feel incompetent for a while? How do you continuously reinvent yourself?
Intrigued? Take a listen.
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Links
Deep Change; Discovering the leader within, Robert Quinn (1996)
Johari window: The 4 parts of the model. Things you know that others don’t know, things that others know that you don’t know, things that you and others know, things that noone knows.